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Amongst reporters, the chief of SSF in the western province
Kohgilouyeh

, Colonel Jahan Daymuz stated: "In the course of the
plan for controlling barber shops and hairdressing shops, 48 shops were visited
and the hairdressing shops of two violators were sealed in City of
Dehdasht."

Pointing out that the plan was carried out for 30 days
across the province he added: "The plan was carried out using female
police force and in cooperation with the Hairdressers Union." (Fars news
agency- 21 December 2013)

The intelligence forces searched
his home, beat him and transferred him to an unknown location. (NCRI- 19
December 2013)

A Sunni cleric summoned and
threatened by MOIS

Hussein Goraji, a known Sunni
cleric residing in City of Mahabad was summoned to MOIS news headquarters and
was threatened that if he continues his lessons at Mahabad's mosque he will be
detained and jailed.

Master Hussein Goraji has
written theological books and also some literatures. So far he has not been
permitted to publish his work. (Herana- 21 December 2013)

Pressure on two Kurd prisoners
and their families

News received say that after the
families of two human rights activists, Afshin Nadimi and Mehrdad Sabori
referred several times to regime's courts in cities of Sanandaj and Kamyaran
being face with their pretense that they are not aware of such cases, regime's
authorities announced that to free the two they demand a 1,400 million Riyals
(about $ 54000) bail which must be paid to regime's court in Sanandaj. (NCRI-
22 December 2013)

…Despite
the moderate candidate Hassan Rouhani’s election as Iran’s president in June
2013, and despite his promises of reform, 12 Iranian journalists fled the
country in 2013 to escape government persecution.

At
least 178 journalists are in prison right now. China, Eritrea, Turkey, Iran and
Syria continue to be world’s five leading jailers of journalists as they were
in 2012…

The
world’s five biggest prisons for journalists

Iran:
awaiting reform
20 journalists and 51 netizens imprisoned

Hassan
Rouhani, a moderate conservative candidate backed by the reformists, was
elected president with 51 per cent of the votes on 15 June. Despite his
promises of reform and despite the release of some prisoners of conscience,
including a few journalists and netizens, most of the news providers who were
in prison before his election – the majority of them arrested in the wake of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed reelection as president in June 2009 – are still
there.

At
least 76 journalists have been arrested since the start of 2013, 42 of them
since June. Seventeen others have been given sentences ranging from one to nine
years in prison. Twelve newspapers and magazines have been suspended or forced
to stop publishing under pressure from the authorities. Inhuman treatment of
prisoners of opinion continues to be common. Many detainees are still denied
medical care despite being very ill or in poor physical and mental health as a
result of their imprisonment. (Reporters without Borders 18 December 2013)